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This CIA FOIA release contains an April 1968 dispatch, UFGA-29877, summarizing how Cuban media covered the assassination of Martin Luther King from 5 to 8 April. The dispatch quotes Granma and Havana radio stations, including statements by Stokely Carmichael and others that call for revolutionary violence. The release also includes May 1971 cables and a memo to the FBI on Americans at the World Peace Council conference in Budapest, where King was posthumously awarded the Joliot-Curie Gold Medal.
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DISPATCH Chief, WH Division Margaret RANDALL de MONDRAGON ACTION REQUIRED - REFERENCES RYBAT MHALPHA Action Required: See paragraph 3. Reference HMMW-16296, 5 April 1968 1. The following items from LIBIGHT/LIMUD coverage concern contacts of Subject who are believed to be of interest: A. Attachment A: A letter from CAW, the magazine of Students for a Democratic Society, signed by Jerry *BODANES, thanks Margaret for her poems which they are using. The magazine is scheduled to be off the press around May 10. The letter clearly indicates that the SDS was behind the student seizure of Columbia University. It says, "Right now our glorious brothers have seized Columbia University--now named Malcolm X University--and over which an N.L.F. flag now flies. The others, faculty, deans, managers, are all scurrying and speaking pious--saying SDS this, SDS that, while we hold five buildings in joyousness and the most serious preparations to resist, our movement has over reached." Enclosed is a check made out against the account of the SDS in the Chemical Bank New York Trust Company, 2681 Broadway, New York, for the amount of $50, and signed by Robert M. *SHAPIRO. ## Continued. Attachments: As listed (9), h/w FULL TEXT COPY - DO NOT RELEASE Distribution: Orig & 2 - C/WHD (w/atts - 1 copy each) 2 - C/WOMUSE (w/o atts) Downgraded to CONFIDENTIAL CROSS REFERENCE TO authority of 007369407773 DISPATCH SYMBOL AND NUMBER date DISPATCH SYMBOL AND NUMBER DATE HMMA-34688 20 May 1968 CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL HOS FILE NUMBER 201-
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 166 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.